Sentences with phrase «not melodramatic»

Frank Cottrell Boyce doesn't exaggerate any part of this story — the boys are not overly sentimentalized; their connection with Julie is not too thickly drawn; their mystery is not melodramatic.»

It was not a melodramatic movie.

The moments of sadness are not melodramatic but scientific, encouraging the audience to study how its characters are acting.

But Carol is not melodramatic and it's certainly not lurid — it's so contained it's practically sealed shut.

Surprisingly, the effect isn't melodramatic or overbearing, but disarming and endearing.

As he said himself in an interview for POPSUGAR, the film «rejuvenates the idea that a vampire isn't some melodramatic suburban teen.

Not exact matches

Not to be too melodramatic, but, a year ago, if you had asked me what the possibility was of major armed confrontation between the United States and another big country, I would have said functionally zero.

The heroine remembers the time before when she and her friends had dismissed news stories of violence done to women (as readers might dismiss literary dystopias) as «too melodramatic»: «We were the people who were not in the papers.

Their subplot was melodramatic and didn't feel like it worked with the rest of the film.

Critics have found it melodramatic, if not self - indulgent.

There have been many times when I'd cooked up something along the kid friendly lines of muffins, pancakes, pizza, or chocolatey anything, convinced that Paloma will eat some, only to see a frown and hear around ten melodramatic versions of «I don't like it.»

And no, I am not being melodramatic; you'll see.

This is slightly melodramatic (and clearly Logan has an extremely well developed sense of fish - related smell), but he's not wrong about the fact that fish tends to have a certain... odor.

It's early days so do not take anything I have stated as being too melodramatic, any negatives are exagerrated somewhat by a small hangover.

Some members of Missing (Parts) had come looking to make a statement, but it's not in her to be melodramatic.

Yes he's a great player when he's in the mood, but when things don't go his way, he sulks and throws his toys out of the pram, so if he wants to go, off you trot sunshine, I can't be arsed with your melodramatics any more.

I presume that the writer is melodramatic when insinuating that her children are going hungry because they can't choose tator tots, but if not that is a separate issue altogether.

The feelings that my body was dirty, that it was not mine, that it was only for someone else to use, to decide if I was pretty, too fat, too thin, too plain, too made - up, too shy, too bold, too accepting, too melodramatic, too obedient, too defiant... you get the idea, that all never went away, I was just lacking explanation for much of it for a long time.

Jacob Rees - Mogg was to be seen lying horizontally on his bench for significant periods and Ben Bradshaw, spoiling for a fight, could not even provoke Tory ire when he decided to conjure the melodramatic image of the Prime Minister scorning «the howls of anguish of victims».

If he hadn't leaked the story in a very melodramatic way there wouldn't have been a run on the bank.

Now I don't want to appear melodramatic, but if you are well advanced in the third year of your PhD funding, you really do need to get out of the lab.

The urban legend is scary, if not a bit melodramatic.

And I'm having trouble walking the line as I write this now, not wanting to sound melodramatic, but needing to express just how horrible it was, and how much it affected me.

I know that all sounds a little melodramatic but it was really fantastic and I don't even think I can express properly how and why.

So try not to get too melodramatic.

I'm not going to be melodramatic.

I agree that Raiden and Rose weren't exactly the most interesting bunch to listen to, but in the end of the game this terrible weakness becomes a shocking strength: Rose's inane, melodramatic banter has all been a petty construction - or has it?

It is not a criticism of those who like Harry Potter to say that the writing here is of the formulaic and melodramatic sort, with artificial language and an abstract moralistic view of social life.

«My childhood is over,» says the critic's 16 - year - old daughter on the ride home, and for once she's not being melodramatic.

The narrative becomes melodramatic and even more synthetic as Punit tries to inject emotion and a sense of nobility that hasn't been earned.

And I liked the fact that the movie wasn't as melodramatic as you'd have thought given the synopsis.

Overall the «lovelorn princess in a tower» gambit isn't just melodramatic, it's a dramatic oversimplification.

A sappy, melodramatic Denzel Washington vehicle that ensnares you in the standard hostage - movie scenario and doesn't let go until the director runs the whole playbook.

In any case, these people's melodramatic issues can not compare to those suffering under the heel of Apartheid at the same time.

Conflict doesn't have to be some huge melodramatic thing, but the total lack of inner conflict in Mary might be why «Mary and the Witch's Flower» — as transportive and entertaining as it is — feels a little slight.

Before the Storm maybe doesn't take this to heart enough, with its more melodramatic plot beats actually detracting from the parts I enjoyed — and yet I'm inclined to forgive those sins, because the moments where it does stumble on some seemingly universal truth?

Based on a novel by Richard Peck called Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Allison Anders's melodramatic coming - of - age tale Gas Food Lodging takes place in Laramie, NM, a small town right off the highway.

But their efforts can't make up for overly simplified characters, not to mention melodramatic exchanges that sound exactly like written dialogue.

I do wish Mr. Robbins's one - note co-stars had been worthy of his performance, and that some of the melodramatics hadn't been quite so slapdash.

The film culminates in a satisfying battle sequence and while the final words between Po and Shen may verge on melodramatic, it's not enough to be cringe - worthy.

Not only is it a wonder of access — the entire cast are non-actors and all dialogue is in Yiddish — but, even more impressively, it manages to be a generous - spirited examination of how practicality can rub up against tradition and culture while never reaching for low - hanging and melodramatic narrative fruit.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

The inclusion of several extraordinarily melodramatic sequences within the film's second act only cements this feeling, to the extent that one can't help but wish that such moments had been excised from the final product.

I didn't particularly mind it myself; it's about as melodramatic, formulaic, and uninteresting as most films of its kind that I've seen, but at the same time, not as bad as, say, half of the lot.

I didn't care how their marriages or affairs turned out; I just wanted the slow, melodramatic music to stop and the movie to end.

The Guardian really doesn't like Quaid's performance in this «tragi - melodramatic soap opera,» but enjoys what Efron brings to the film.

If there's another TV show that can approach its ability to meld melodramatic horror, fun and social metaphor, I haven't seen it.

Nichols isn't a director who tends to indulge in grand, melodramatic moments; even Midnight Special feels restrained compared to the Amblin films that obviously inspired it.

Realistically speaking, myself and probably all critics are not the target demographic for an unapologetically melodramatic romance involving teenagers -LSB-...]

More notably, this movie doesn't bog itself down with melodramatic moments.